Cops Tase Barely Conscious Boy With Broken Back 19 Times For Non-Compliance
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Police: Taser use is “not one of the unanswered questions” surrounding the case
Steve Watson
[1] Infowars.net
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
You couldn’t make it up if you tried. Police in Ozark, Missouri repeatedly tased a critically injured sixteen year old boy after he “refused to comply with the officers”.
The cops were called to investigate reports of a boy walking along a busy overpass, but when they got there they found young Mace Hutchinson had fallen 30 ft to the ground below, breaking his back and and foot in the process.
When he did not co-operate with the cops they pulled out their stun guns and fired them into his body, shocking him up to nineteen times with 50,000 volts.
According to the boy’s father, the actions of the police caused an elevated white blood cell count leading Mace to develop a fever that delayed vital surgery by two days.
Ozark Police Capt. Thomas Rousset tried to condone the use of the taser in comments to the media:
“He refused to comply with the officers and so the officers had to deploy their Tasers in order to subdue him. He is making incoherent statements; he’s also making statements such as, ‘Shoot cops, kill cops,’ things like that. So there was cause for concern to the officers.”
Watch a local report from [2] KY3 News:
The idea that a boy with a broken back would need to be “subdued” by a team of cops is not patently ludicrous but also smacks of a desperate attempt to cover up the true events in this case.
This is a perfect example of how it has become the norm for cops to react with extreme physical force towards anyone who acts out of the ordinary in any way whatsoever.
We have previously carried reports of police tasing an [3] already restrained disabled man, a 6-year-old boy who was [4] wielding a piece of glass and a [5] woman having diabetic seizure to name but a few, but this case trumps them all.
This behaviour is not limited to cops in the U.S. either, last November a man who [6] slipped into a diabetic coma on the top deck of a bus in Leeds, England described how he was used for electric stun gun “target practice” after he “failed to respond to instructions” and police “mistook him for a suicide bomber”.
Tasers are supposed to be the last response before lethal action, yet police now use the taser as if it is a pair of handcuffs or pepper spray. The latest figures show that over 300 people died in one year in admitted cases in the US alone from being tased.
[7] Prominent heart doctors have declared that there is no doubt that Tasers can cause heart problems and even induce sudden and lethal cardiac arrest.
The UN’s Committee Against Torture issued a [8] statement on the TaserX26, in November of last year which read: “The use of TaserX26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form of torture, and that in certain cases it could also cause death, as shown by several reliable studies and by certain cases that had happened after practical use.”
Despite these facts, we see [9] stories every week of old women, children and disabled people being shot with tasers. The weapons are even being used in schools.
The police are now trained that “pain compliance,” a euphemism for torture, is acceptable in apprehending anyone even if that person poses no physical danger.
The heart of the issue is that this was another act of wanton police brutality and torture by means of tasing.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/cops-tase-barely-conscious-boy-with-broken-back-19-times-for-non-compliance.html
I bet it was officer Appleton. That motherfucker.
Steve Watson
[1] Infowars.net
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
You couldn’t make it up if you tried. Police in Ozark, Missouri repeatedly tased a critically injured sixteen year old boy after he “refused to comply with the officers”.
The cops were called to investigate reports of a boy walking along a busy overpass, but when they got there they found young Mace Hutchinson had fallen 30 ft to the ground below, breaking his back and and foot in the process.
When he did not co-operate with the cops they pulled out their stun guns and fired them into his body, shocking him up to nineteen times with 50,000 volts.
According to the boy’s father, the actions of the police caused an elevated white blood cell count leading Mace to develop a fever that delayed vital surgery by two days.
Ozark Police Capt. Thomas Rousset tried to condone the use of the taser in comments to the media:
“He refused to comply with the officers and so the officers had to deploy their Tasers in order to subdue him. He is making incoherent statements; he’s also making statements such as, ‘Shoot cops, kill cops,’ things like that. So there was cause for concern to the officers.”
Watch a local report from [2] KY3 News:
The idea that a boy with a broken back would need to be “subdued” by a team of cops is not patently ludicrous but also smacks of a desperate attempt to cover up the true events in this case.
This is a perfect example of how it has become the norm for cops to react with extreme physical force towards anyone who acts out of the ordinary in any way whatsoever.
We have previously carried reports of police tasing an [3] already restrained disabled man, a 6-year-old boy who was [4] wielding a piece of glass and a [5] woman having diabetic seizure to name but a few, but this case trumps them all.
This behaviour is not limited to cops in the U.S. either, last November a man who [6] slipped into a diabetic coma on the top deck of a bus in Leeds, England described how he was used for electric stun gun “target practice” after he “failed to respond to instructions” and police “mistook him for a suicide bomber”.
Tasers are supposed to be the last response before lethal action, yet police now use the taser as if it is a pair of handcuffs or pepper spray. The latest figures show that over 300 people died in one year in admitted cases in the US alone from being tased.
[7] Prominent heart doctors have declared that there is no doubt that Tasers can cause heart problems and even induce sudden and lethal cardiac arrest.
The UN’s Committee Against Torture issued a [8] statement on the TaserX26, in November of last year which read: “The use of TaserX26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form of torture, and that in certain cases it could also cause death, as shown by several reliable studies and by certain cases that had happened after practical use.”
Despite these facts, we see [9] stories every week of old women, children and disabled people being shot with tasers. The weapons are even being used in schools.
The police are now trained that “pain compliance,” a euphemism for torture, is acceptable in apprehending anyone even if that person poses no physical danger.
The heart of the issue is that this was another act of wanton police brutality and torture by means of tasing.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/cops-tase-barely-conscious-boy-with-broken-back-19-times-for-non-compliance.html
I bet it was officer Appleton. That motherfucker.
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wtf...
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Two in my area, in the last 6-8 months:
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/17007775/detail.html
http://www.wsoctv.com/news/15660114/detail.html
His parents named him after a brand of pepper spray, of course he's going to end up getting tazed.
Seriously though, it just pisses me off more every day reading about all these people getting tazered. 4 or 5 cops can't "subdue" a kid with a broken back? Complete bullshit.
Sorry...need more facts before I join in on the liberal tirade. Did this kid have a weapon on him or did he threaten to cause harm to the cops? How did the cops receive the call on the radio? Did the dispatcher say the kid was emotionally disturbed and impeding traffic while threatening passerbys? Did the kid harm anyone before the police responded? I've seen people with broken bones defend themselves pretty good in fights. Until you walk in the shoes of a cop...I wouldn't become Michael Moore. Some people on the MB have family members and friends that are cops. All of the ones I know want to go home at the end of the day to see their families just like everyone else. Let me tell you this...if a 6 year old was "wielding glass" at me...I'd fuck him up too!
dude, i hope you are kidding
I just got off the phone with the father of Mace Hutchison, Don. He told me a number of interesting things:
- KY3 told him the police told them (KY3) that they had tased Mace 19 times
- The police report said that Mace said nothing until they tased him.
- The cops said they only used 2 guns on Mace while the ER physician told Don that there were 6 taser unique prong marks (each one has a different mark apparently) on Mace
- The cops also said they tased Mace only when he (somehow) began to move toward the highway
- Mace's heel was so badly, so hideously broken, that the physicians had to perform reconstructive surgery on it and put a new bone in his heel to make it something approaching a heel.
After I got off the phone with Don Hutchinson , I phoned the Ozark police department (1-417-581-6600)
The lady who took my call at the Ozark police station neither confirmed nor denied the report that Ozark police tased Mace 19 times.
She would only say that the Ozark police "deployed" their tasers 19 times. When I asked her to clarify the term "deployed" she referred me to a news report on the incident carried by News-Leader which she said presented a fairer view of the story than the one at KY3
The story at News-Leader quotes Police Chief Lyle Hodges saying he thought the cops tased Mace for his own good. That's right.
He says they tased him (19 times) to prevent his crawling onto the highway and getting hit by a a car. But get this - the word the Chief uses to describe Mace's movement toward the highway is "darted". Never mind that Mace had a broken back and a badly broken heel. Mace was in danger of "darting" to the highway.
Nope. I question EVERYTHING! I don't jump on anyone's bandwagon until I hear FACTS.
But........if this kid was healed when he got so much voltage would it have been a miracle?
This is sort of what I am wondering too. I have heard of cases where people fracture a vertebrae and can still walk around because their spinal cord is still intact. Plus the thing that bugs me about this kind of story is yes it is terrible that people die from Tazers, but at the same time how many lives are saved by Tazers? No one ever reports on that. I bet there are tons of cases when there are people that cops could have legitimately used deadly force on and they decide to tazer the person instead saving their live. And personally if I was in a situation where a cop needed to use force against me I would take the tazer over the bullet any day.
"Prior to the surfacing of this video, the police officer filed an official report claiming that the biker had hit him, then resisted arrest. The officer is (or should be) facing not only assault charges but perjury as well for the lies in his sworn statement."
http://break.com/index/how-to-slow-a-biker-down.html
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Mace says he still can’t remember how he ended up at the bottom of the bridge. He says he knows he didn’t willingly jump.
“I know I’m lucky to survive that far of a fall.”
Police records say Hutchinson was aggressive with them, and tried to get up and get into traffic. Mace points out that he doesn’t weigh much and wonders why an officer didn’t just restrain him.
Police also say he yelled threatening remarks about harming officers. Those things combined were why they used the electric stun gun on him.
“He was saying things like, ‘Kill cops, shoot cops,’” Ozark Police Capt. Thomas Rousset said on July 23.
Mace says he doesn’t remember that and certainly doesn’t know how it would have been possible, with his injuries, for him to move toward the highway.
“There’s no way I could stand up. I had a broken back and a broken foot,” he said.
“I definitely want them to get punished, I don’t want them to get away with it.”
After the incident, the Ozark police chief said he launched an internal investigation. A reporter called the Ozark Police Department multiple times on Thursday but no one returned a call to provide an update on that investigation.
Funny that, how the brave boys in blue turn into sniveling cowards when it comes to answering for what they’ve done. Then they run and hide.
-Enoch Powell
Well, they almost did ALL by themselves.
Peace
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*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
They were just trying to speed up the process.
And what a surprise, the little bastard is getting all huffed and puffed because they effectively saved his life.
Try not jumping off bridges and not remembering how you did it asshole. And then fighting the cops when they try and help yer sorry ass.
-Enoch Powell
Hmmm, a state trooper in the making you could make a great candidate.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Ya know?
BAM stop resisting! BAM stop resisting!
Even if they're not resisting, at least that teaches 'em a little lesson they aren't likely to fergit!
-Enoch Powell
So he jumped off a bridge, was still able to move around even with a broken foot and was threatening the cops and doesn't remember a thing. Gee I wonder if that guy was hopped up on drugs?
And that jackass is relevant to this story how?
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
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I have to assume that part of the problem is the fact that tasers have been marketed as much safer than they actually are ...
Maybe, although taking away tasers completely might actually lead to more shootings ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=malnd19Ttyk
sing along....
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tough one.... I can't fathom it either...
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You need help.